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[WP] Some say that your power is future sight. Others insist that you have superhuman intellect. They're wrong. Your power is the ability "Quicksave." | Loading state 2521632-C...
“-will be finished! now you die!”
Dodge left, duck, dodge right, retaliate punch, kick, backflip onto platform.
“Impossible! How could you have predicted my attacks so well? I took every liberty to make sure you couldn’t!”
“Well I’ve already seen this fight hundreds of times, and I must s... | 4928... That's how many times I’ve saved the world and each time it gets more and more complicated. Before my ability life was simple, I was a twenty-something guy just lazing about during the new year lockdown in 2021. I'd just received the new PS5 I had been saving up for and started playing when lightning hit. I sti... | 2020-12-15T13:22:34 | 2020-12-15T13:15:04 | 2,756 | 500 |
[WP] A being at the gates of the afterlife allows every soul that passes through to ask it one question. Used to being asked questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "How many people loved me?", it's taken unawares when a soul asks "How was your day?" instead. | "My day? That's your question?" The being asked, taken aback. The six-armed monstrosity that was covered in eyes which all looked at the man repeated its statement. "You only get one question and I'll answer it. I know everything."
"I know that," the older gentleman nodded. "Listening is where love begins: listening t... | “How was your day?” The spirit asked innocently.
The glowing, hooded figure grew still. Normally, a response was given without any hesitation. Yet this time it was stumped. The spirit cocked their head in confusion.
The hooded figure then gazed down at the spirit, then offered its long, skeleton-like hand. Climb, it ... | 2021-03-29T00:57:28 | 2021-03-28T20:17:28 | 87 | 49 |
[WP] A being at the gates of the afterlife allows every soul that passes through to ask it one question. Used to being asked questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" and "How many people loved me?", it's taken unawares when a soul asks "How was your day?" instead. | "My day? That's your question?" The being asked, taken aback. The six-armed monstrosity that was covered in eyes which all looked at the man repeated its statement. "You only get one question and I'll answer it. I know everything."
"I know that," the older gentleman nodded. "Listening is where love begins: listening t... | "Hey, man, how was your day?"
The gatekeeper just stared at the little spirit ahead of him.
"Sorry?"
"How was your day... Sir?"
The gatekeeper looked around. What kind of question is that? Who is this young soul with his strange questions?
"We don't really have days here" he explained to the soul. "It's one big... | 2021-03-29T00:57:28 | 2021-03-28T22:36:02 | 87 | 19 |
[WP] You've loved an immortal for a long time, and they loved you back knowing your time together would be short. Doesn't make learning about the dozens of past lovers they've had, and the fact that their descendants are still alive any less upsetting, though. | ##My Sunrise
I wake up feeling empty and look over at my husband's body. I watch his chest rise and fall, and I see him stir and turn on his side. His back contains a multitude of scars that are older than this building. The flesh that holds the scar does not look older than forty.
Sunlight peaks in through the curt... | It's a touchy subject in any relationship. It can fray even the strongest bond. Sure, there are secure fellas who can listen to their their girlfriends list ex-lovers and be completely unfazed. But there are also many who cannot help but crumble in the face of their girl's romantic past.
At first, they ask for convers... | 2021-05-18T18:32:49 | 2021-05-18T17:58:48 | 47 | 22 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | An Ounce of Prevention
“They’re here, Sir”. Cybersquire knelt before me in the showy manner he always used to ham it up for the heroes. I sat on my throne as usual, but my normal cool confidence did little to ease the ice in my veins at his words.
“All three of them?” I asked, hoping against hope that perhaps only o... | My heros. I dont know what happened, if i let them be. They wouldve probably turned into villains. Good, that i was there.
I lead them to great success, i was the one who made them famous, i was the one, that let the people believe in them. My plan was perfect, until this certain guy showed up. 'Nightscream'. An arrog... | 2021-05-20T08:01:46 | 2021-05-20T07:28:17 | 225 | 51 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | **Quanta.. wake-up.. Quanta..**
( Quanta gasps )
Q: Where am I? Did we catch Mint master?
Me: ...
A robot walks in and hands over my medication.
Q(angrily): You... You're Mint master. You kidnapped me...
Mm: yes.. I'm the great Mint master. Your favourite supervillain. How you're doing?
( Comes to light)
Q: You'r... | I am White Eteru, the villain of the small city I have always cared for. I am a villain, and I go by the alias, "Phantom". My powers are the ability to control the fifth element, aether. I used to be a hero, but that was before I was accused of killing innocents. I was thrown out of my hero group and they all called me... | 2021-05-20T08:42:02 | 2021-05-20T08:08:53 | 28 | 21 |
[WP] You are the city's premier supervillain, but you have a secret. The crimes you commit are not for gain, or to hurt people. You are always subtly testing and pushing 'your' heroes to excel, to be the best they can be. Then a villain with a reputation for murdering heroes shows up in town. | My city has the unique trait of somehow being the city the both has the highest crime rate and the highest safety rating in the country. At least once a week our resident supervillain attempts to do something evil and every time she’s stopped by our world-class heroes. The villain is me, by the way.
See I always had ... | "You are not a villain! you are a monster! a murderer!"
the man in blue sent a crackle of electric fury, barely weaving around the projectiles of dark that whizzed around him. "Do I not solve your problems!? Is it not that these heroes bring you nothing but troubles?"
the man in black found himself behind the man in... | 2021-05-20T11:17:36 | 2021-05-20T11:07:57 | 23 | 16 |
[WP] Another soldier in power armor sprinted past, his gait unnaturally mechanical. Then he turned around - his visor was cracked wide open, his face but a gaping, bloody crater. The suit's on-board AI was in control, moving and responding to orders while cradling the corpse of its late operator. | "Captain Lowery step forward." This was it, final step of the investigating tribunal before they made their decision, if it was not already made, personal testimony. "Captain, I'd like to hear in your own words, your actions on August 7th following the death of LT Johnson."
"Yes sir Colonel. I noted that Tyrone...L... | Punctual and concise. Stern, but with a gentle heart. A family man who wouldn't shut up about his husband once he started going. I couldn't spot any of those things in Tom's MK-4 suit, which still hummed along despite its heavy damages. The right arm was chewed off right by the shoulder, the great heat from the zEnn's ... | 2021-06-30T23:52:58 | 2021-06-30T22:16:44 | 26 | 13 |
[WP] You find yourself waking up to a strange new world with massive ostentatious pillars and clouds in place of ground. When you get up to investigate, you are greeted by a squirrel that says "Alright newbie, give me your name, preferred pantheon, and what you're the God of." | "Hey, you. You're finally awake."
"Alright newbie, give me your name, preferred pantheon, and what you're the God of," it said in a matter-of-fact manner. saw, however, I did not expect. Before me was... a... creature? To call it bizarre would be underselling it. Though it possessed the shape of a squirrel, its feet w... | The creature woke up to a new world. She sat up, and looked around. The world was strange. Massive, ostentatious pillars loomed in the sky, in place of the ground she was used to. Clouds filled the space where the ground should be.
She got up to investigate, and was greeted by a squirrel. "Alright newbie... | 2022-01-15T08:51:36 | 2022-01-15T07:42:56 | 101 | 35 |
[WP] Funnily enough, you became the world's strongest necromancer because no one else thought of raising other necromancers as undead. | The sky was a deep red hue, tinted by the innumerable fires that rampage across the battlefield. This war was finally at an end, with the charred remains of the Necromancer Mordechai at my feet. I had done it. I had slain the rival monster.
The skeletal legions of the Dread Lord Necromancer Mordechai ceased their lurc... | Existence is a circle.
A birth takes effort and energy, the single cell grows and eats from the womb for the baby to draw a first breath when it tastes air for the first time. An organism consuming energy for its own individual need, in a world of similar organisms, the end of everything if Life with a capital L hadn'... | 2022-05-14T06:13:38 | 2022-05-14T06:13:35 | 59 | 28 |
[WP] Funnily enough, you became the world's strongest necromancer because no one else thought of raising other necromancers as undead. | “Ah, so it’s a pyramid scheme.”
“What? No! It’s not a pyramid scheme! I raise necromancers and they raise other… oh shit, it’s a pyramid scheme. I started a pyramid scheme!”
“Hold on, it’s not that bad. You did it for good reasons, to stop the evil Queen Dottera.”
“But why did I want to stop her? What makes her so e... | It came by surprise. I was a third-year student at the Academy of the Occult in pocket dimension 34, when I was talking with my friends about Genies. We talked for 3 hours about all illogical rules around magic lamps and how constraining they were: no wishing for more wishes, no wishes for more genies etc. Basics you c... | 2022-05-14T06:31:16 | 2022-05-14T05:50:08 | 45 | 29 |
[WP] Aliens take over the Earth. They then announce that they will be forcing the humans to work a "tyrannical" 4 hours a day 4 days a week in exchange for basic rights like housing. Needless to say they are very confused when the humans celebrate their new alien overlords. | "I was homeless, you idiot! I was trash on the side of the street that you walked by without even seeing! Now I have a job, I have a house - a home! You cannot even begin to imagine what that word means to me."
The recruiter on my doorstep with the 'Freedom Now' hat, and a fistful of pamphlets had no idea how to respo... | It wasn’t until a hush came over the crowd that one lone voice could be heard.
“By “tyrannical” 4 hours, do you mean Earth hours?” Queried the tentative voice.
“No, it means 4 hour “Tyranic” hours. On our home planet there are a total of 5 hours to a day. You will work 4/5 of the day. Do you understand hooman?” Came... | 2022-11-02T23:57:17 | 2022-11-02T22:30:55 | 129 | 93 |
[WP] This fairly innocuous-looking girl just beat up your entire martial arts dojo, by herself. When you asked why, she said one of your students was picking on her brother. | I watched my students bounce in with joy for sparring day. It was everyone’s favorite day at the dojo and excitement filled the air. It’s the time for them to showcase their skills and practice new techniques, all in the name of friendly competition. The boys were always eager, I often found it hard to get them to pay ... | Victor watched as the members of his dojo strived for further mastery. They each performed various katas according to their skill. He stopped by some students to correct their form.
He paused when he saw a figure at the door. A young woman was there. She was young, maybe in her late teens or early twenties. She wore p... | 2022-12-15T11:49:45 | 2022-12-15T11:41:04 | 240 | 38 |
[WP] Humans are popular as servants across the galaxy, but there are rules and laws regarding having a human servant, to ensure they are treated fairly. Unfortunately one of those rules ISN'T that you can't take a human against their will. | "Good morning, Claire. How are you feeling?"
"I wasn't expecting to see another human! And you know my name, oh my God!"
Claire stood before a middle aged man in a white coat with a stethoscope draped around his neck. His coat was embroidered with four lines of unintelligible script, followed by "T. Nguyen - HUMAN DO... | "Free will? And what have we done with free will?" Asked the old woman.
They sat in a white room, so white they couldn't see the floor under their feet. As if they floated in a void, a warm, peaceful void.
"We created art," said the artist, spreading paint on a canvas, the multicolored bird appearing loud in the unen... | 2022-12-23T10:47:35 | 2022-12-23T02:30:59 | 58 | 32 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | I turned to face the source of the scream and saw Gary writhing in pain on the floor. "Dude, are you okay?"
A feminine voice replied, "Dude... What the fu-" The voice stopped short. We were both equally startled by the raised pitch.
"Uh...Gary?"
Gary stood up slowly and looked around. "Steve, what's wrong with m... | I lay back on my mountain of cash and met the Djinn’s lighting storm eyes.
“For my final wish, I wish to meet the girl of my dreams, my perfect soul mate.”
“It is done.” The Djinn said in it’s mountain slide voice. One final crackling blink and it disappeared into a swirling pile of dust.
I looked down at my cat, “W... | 2014-08-19T10:12:19 | 2014-08-19T09:49:05 | 495 | 90 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | I turned to face the source of the scream and saw Gary writhing in pain on the floor. "Dude, are you okay?"
A feminine voice replied, "Dude... What the fu-" The voice stopped short. We were both equally startled by the raised pitch.
"Uh...Gary?"
Gary stood up slowly and looked around. "Steve, what's wrong with m... | I heard the scream. It was loud and I'm sure I ruptured an ear drum. I went toward the source. I ended up in my roommate's room. His room is now completely different. It usually is messy with shit everywhere, but today it was clean. It smelled nice in the room too. I walked into his personal bathroom. The shower was on... | 2014-08-19T10:12:19 | 2014-08-19T08:54:23 | 495 | 89 |
[WP] Your final wish to the Djinn is to meet the girl who will be your perfect soulmate. Just then you hear an ear piercing scream... your best friend/roommate just turned into a girl.
She (he?) still has all the memories of her (his?) previous life; but others might not.
Also consider what the other wishes might hav... | Decided to keep the same WP but with a twist
I could hear his screams echo through the house.
"Whelp that's all from me then, bye" The Djinn shrugged his shoulders before vanishing into dust. Running to Jake's room I opened the door only to see him fondling his new breasts in shock.
"Why do I have breasts? Where di... | After a long tiring day in college, I headed for my room in the apartment I had recently moved into with a close buddy of mine. I throw my backpack on the floor, lie down on my bed and quickly note the time - it was 6:45 pm.
As I was staring at the ceiling, I remembered the lamp my roommate Ashkan had showed me a co... | 2014-08-19T11:27:56 | 2014-08-19T10:17:13 | 59 | 13 |
[WP] Frighten me without using any blood, gore or explicit violence. | *One in ten million*
The voice had shown up for the first time a few days ago. I had started my car and was backing out of my driveway when it had whispered over my shoulder. I had slammed on my brakes and looked into my back seat, but there was no one there.
That wasn't the last time I had heard it.
*One in on... | My eyes stopped working this morning. And my arms and legs. I'm lying in the middle of my cold kitchen floor, trying to twist my head, neck, and torso enough to get myself upright. I must have left my door open before all this happened; the wind is whipping through the house. I can hear the curtains ruffling and papers... | 2014-11-18T09:27:15 | 2014-11-18T08:59:17 | 258 | 14 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I've seen the numbers since I was a little girl. I remember my father losing his job, rising from a 4 to a 5. I remember watching my grandmother slowly dwindle down to a 0. At first I thought I was going crazy, not realizing what they meant. I eventually caught on. The numbers were a person's ultimate quantifier, broad... | "I'm Michael," he said as he stuffed text books into his locker.
I wasn't sure what to do. He was a ten. The only ten I'd seen was my dad and he'd been locked away. It was his number that brought back the painful memories of my childhood. He would come home every night drenched with the stench of cigarettes, beer, an... | 2014-11-29T14:43:43 | 2014-11-29T13:16:01 | 295 | 36 |
[WP] You are a teenager with the ability to measure how "Dangerous" people are on a scale from 1 to 10 just by looking at them. A normal child would be a 1, while a trained man with an assault rifle might be a 7. Today, you notice the unassuming new kid at school measures a 10. | I sat in the back of the classroom, staring at her.
What the hell was going on? Was I losing it?
I looked around the room. No, everything was normal. A bunch of 3s, a few fours, and Mark, a six (I stay away from him).
Then there's this girl.
I had heard all about her. She was new in town, apparently her parents we... | “One, two, two, one, three, two.” Numbers over the heads of my friends, family.... People I knew, people I didn’t. I can’t remember when they got there. I just sort of started noticing them one day.... And what they meant was... Obvious to me somehow. “One.... One....”
I often murmured to myself, no one seemed to not... | 2014-11-29T15:20:57 | 2014-11-29T14:15:56 | 50 | 30 |
[WP] “Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” -Anonymous | A screech, a crash, a flash - in seconds it was all over. A great blinding light washed over me, and I found myself surrounded by the material that makes up the very universe. I saw time stretch before me, eons and ages would pass without me. I had been removed from existence...or so I thought. I looked over to my left... | "You were never depressed."
I stand up and try to clear my head. Where is the car? The last thing I remember is flying through the windshield. Shouldn't I be outside? All I see is a plain white room with a single chair, with a man sitting in it wearing--my clothes?
"Sorry, who are you?" I ask "Is this the hospita... | 2022-09-04T14:52:04 | 2015-01-02T20:05:58 | 383 | 12 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The head was crowning, so the ritual began. The priest walked with the father to their appointed place, while the women did their work.
"Remember, to say the words only after you have met eyes with the child and have felt your souls lock."
"How...how will I know when that is?" stammered the soon to be father.
"You ... | "So, like night vision?" He looked at me with that annoyingly high eyebrow thing he does. "Yea, I don't want to talk about it, I just want some coffee," I explained, shifting slowly closer to the counter with my head down.
"Ok, so let me get this straight, of all the things could have chosen, they wanted you to make s... | 2015-01-13T10:32:55 | 2015-01-13T09:42:30 | 87 | 42 |
[WP] When a child is born, their parents may pick one skill that the child will be, without a doubt, talented in.
**EDIT** Wow! This went way bigger than I ever thought it would! Thanks to everyone that responded to the prompt! And to the readers - don't be afraid of the new filter, there are a lot of great stories he... | The head was crowning, so the ritual began. The priest walked with the father to their appointed place, while the women did their work.
"Remember, to say the words only after you have met eyes with the child and have felt your souls lock."
"How...how will I know when that is?" stammered the soon to be father.
"You ... | (please forgive any grammar mistakes, long story as to why I suck at it...Trying to improve.
"I think he should be a talented SLADE mechanic, it is the family heritage after all!" Harry, the boys father stated tapping his foot impatiently. His wife had been pushing for there son to be an artist.
"Everything is not ab... | 2015-01-13T10:32:55 | 2015-01-13T10:30:23 | 87 | 19 |
[WP] Two people discover a fountain of youth. The problem is that upon drinking the water you turn back into an infant. The two decide to take turns raising each other in order to live forever until one day one of them decides to break this agreement. | "No, please."
She pushed the vial away from her lips, her thin and wrinkly hands shaking.
"Why?" I asked.
"I... I'm so tired, dear." She sighed. Then she continued:
"My flesh is tired."
"What do you mean?"
"The other ones, my other lives, I've come to realize... they were not *really* me. I've read their diaries... | The old man pushed past the overgrown brush for the last time. There it was; the fountain of youth.
The fountain, as well as the rest of the shrine, had fallen into disuse, thousands of years beforehand. This was clear by the dense foliage that populated every conceivable inch of the shrine enclosing the fountain, whi... | 2015-02-14T06:40:49 | 2015-02-14T06:06:48 | 1,103 | 10 |
[WP] You live in a statistically opposite world. If normally 1/5 people had the common cold, now 4/5 people do, if any house had a 1/200 chance of burning down while the owners were away, there is now a 199/200 chance it happening. | "Honey, did you light the matches before we left?"
I nodded. "And I left the burners on. Did you remember to unlock the house?"
Sally smiled. "You're the one that always forgets."
I smiled back. She was adorable. As I locked eyes with her, I kept one hand on the wheel of the car. Of course, the car stayed right betw... | Its a blessing and a curse.
I wasn't the brightest child, and that combined with coming from a upper-class white family didn't give me many options as far as careers went. I dreamt of being a janitor all throughout elementary school, but as I got further into my life I had to become more realistic. I knew I'd probably... | 2015-04-12T09:38:30 | 2015-04-12T08:32:35 | 140 | 69 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | **Changes**
* Removed appendix
* Removed wisdom teeth
* Fixed a bug that caused infants to die for no reason
* Patched a bug that caused certain people to lose hair prematurely
* Body now handles excess calories better.
* Improvement of smell. Now should be on par with dogs
* Patched the bug that caused blurry vision ... | Update available!
Patch notes for humans below:
General
- Fixed a bug which made liquids spray out of the nose when humans laugh and drink at the same time
- Tweaked cognitiv memory settings that fixes random amnesia when subjects enter rooms or opens the fridge, causing them to forget their task or stare for hours ... | 2015-08-25T08:40:17 | 2015-08-25T07:46:47 | 292 | 51 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | God: "What the me is this?! How the hell am I supposed to find anything again!
The first ones are okay:
Patch: Wisdomteethremov1.4
Patch: Diabeetus1.8
Patch: Colonmrrt2.3
But these?!
Patch: TrgH&3.4
Patch: TrgH&3.5
Patch: TrgH&3.5.1
Patch: TrgH&3.5.1&Wisdomteethremov1.5
And so o... | [[PATCH NOTES: VER 1.1]]
-- Fixed human sense of smell to that of dog. (x1000/1 000 000?) Yes, me. NOT HARD, GOD.
-- Optional mermaid genealogy.
-- System server handling update. 7 billion daily users.
-- Security upgrades:
Bug #42 Polio has been posthumously eradicated.
God-given formation of United Nations Human... | 2015-08-25T07:52:02 | 2015-08-25T07:26:00 | 150 | 47 |
[WP] You are a world-class programmer who has died. God agrees to allow you in to Heaven on the condition that you work for him while he debugs the human body. Write the patch notes for the next version of humans. | git diff
similarity index 72%
rename from incentives.h
rename to motives/incentives.h
index f3e63d7..e8f44ba 100644
--- a/incentive.h
+++ b/incentives.h
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
- #include "greed.h"
- #include "power.h"
- #include "exploitation.h"
-
+ /*
+ Seriously,... | [[PATCH NOTES: VER 1.1]]
-- Fixed human sense of smell to that of dog. (x1000/1 000 000?) Yes, me. NOT HARD, GOD.
-- Optional mermaid genealogy.
-- System server handling update. 7 billion daily users.
-- Security upgrades:
Bug #42 Polio has been posthumously eradicated.
God-given formation of United Nations Human... | 2015-08-25T07:52:12 | 2015-08-25T07:26:00 | 69 | 47 |
[WP]In the near future both the U.S. and Russia have new presidents, both of whom happen to be alcoholics. On a state visit at the White House they start taking shots of vodka one evening, and just for laughs decide to pass the time by planning a joint invasion of a random country. | "Right, right, I know we can't *reaaaaally* do it... but hypoth- ... hypother- ... whaddif we just, like, went and fucked ISIS up?" Charles started, leaning back in his chair.
"Who says that we cannot?" Remizov replied, calmly emptying his glass.
"Yeah man, we could just... *UNFF.* You know?" Charles continued.
Remi... | "The man asked for another shot! You heard him!"
The bartender smiled apologetically at the two extremely drunk and angry men, "Sir, I can't serve either of you anymore until you sober up. Company policy."
"Pour me another shot or I'll have you shot."
Security began to approach slowly from behind, but were immediate... | 2015-11-23T09:09:43 | 2015-11-23T05:43:25 | 404 | 108 |
[WP]In the near future both the U.S. and Russia have new presidents, both of whom happen to be alcoholics. On a state visit at the White House they start taking shots of vodka one evening, and just for laughs decide to pass the time by planning a joint invasion of a random country. | "How about... Denmark? No, wait, Switzerland! Those neutral bastards"
"And gain what from it Comrade? Lower cheese prices? Switzerland will never work!"
The clattering of a toast and pained exhalations followed shortly.
"Maybe... maybe Belgium? Wouldn't that be unexpected?"
"Remember what happened last time someone i... | "The man asked for another shot! You heard him!"
The bartender smiled apologetically at the two extremely drunk and angry men, "Sir, I can't serve either of you anymore until you sober up. Company policy."
"Pour me another shot or I'll have you shot."
Security began to approach slowly from behind, but were immediate... | 2015-11-23T07:15:10 | 2015-11-23T05:43:25 | 173 | 108 |
[WP] As a White House janitor, you are 627th in line for the presidency. You never expected a catastrophe to cause the deaths of the 626 people ahead of you... | Terrorists.
I know, it's typically a cop-out ploy to monger fear via the media, but the enemies of the US have actually done it.
When Russian subs were found exploring the undersea cables, it was already too late. All at once communication was cut across the nation. Simultaneously, China deployed use of a supercha... | "Mr. President" A man wearing an off the rack black suit and sunglasses shouted.
I ignored him of course, working in the whitehouse you become used to important people being around.
I should have looked up, then being rugby tackled to the ground wouldn't have dazed me as much.
I struggled to get out from under the rhi... | 2022-10-29T12:31:57 | 2016-06-04T02:49:23 | 194 | 13 |
[WP] Thousands of children mistakenly write letters to Satan each year because they misspell Santa. This year, instead of forwarding these to Santa, Satan decides to help out... | Timmy tucked himself into his bed, pulling over his warm blanket with a single tear running down his cheek. It hadn't been a good Christmas Eve. Ever since his mom died, his dad had gotten much scarier than ever before. He used to just shout at her, punishing her whenever she was bad, but a few months ago she'd gotten ... | So this is based on an established universe I have. Here is ["Lucky the Archdemon"](https://redd.it/4dpbaa) from that universe. This story is called "Satan Goes Christmas Shopping."
"You know, Lucky, I feel like this is the sort of thing I should not have to explain to you," Russ told me condescendingly.
I was leani... | 2016-12-24T19:06:09 | 2016-12-24T18:41:16 | 193 | 21 |
[WP] Aliens planning an invasion of Earth confuse our video games for a military exercise. They reason that if they can beat those, they can also defeat us in combat. They're having some difficulties with our harder games... | "What is he doing to your virtual corpse Zorg?"
"He is repeatedly crouching on my face. I believe it is a sign of dominance. I tried searching for the gesture on the human interweb but it kept returning references to a warm caffeinated beverage."
"Most strange. How goes the tactical assessment? Have you managed to be... | 'Damn it!' the lux shouted before throwing the holographic controller away. 'How do these mortals even slay these animals?'
'What's the problem?' his co-worker asked as he looked away from the screen of Mass Effect 3. 'Difficult enemy?'
'This Onryoki is brel shit!' the first lux groaned. 'I almost had him!'
'Tell me... | 2017-03-02T11:32:27 | 2017-03-02T08:24:53 | 62 | 39 |
[WP] Life has achievements, just like in video games. Ever since the dawn of time, people have been unlocking all kinds of achievements, and yet, people are still discovering new achievements every year. You're one of those people who just unlocked an achievement no one's heard of before. | They call it the "Agape Achievement"
I had to research into it.
Turns out that "agape" means unconditional love.
There's a song about it.
Have no idea what I did to deserve the achievement but I guess I did it.
Huh.
Never mind, looked at the description.
*Go against "You can only love others if you love yourself... | I am one of those people who just unlocked an achievement no one's heard of before.
I wish I can describe it to you and tell you what it can do, but we haven't invented the words necessary for me to explain.
I've been scrolling the Internet looking for a simile, metaphor, or some type of analogy to at least give the... | 2017-04-13T19:45:29 | 2017-04-13T19:19:59 | 20 | 11 |
[WP] A group of friends meet up with each other every hundred years. One is immortal, one is reincarnated into a new body every time they die, one is a time traveler, one is a robot, and one is Death.
If you can think of any other types of people, please add them. That's all I could think of.
And you don't have to i... | "You're always the first one here," Correa said as he sat down in their usual booth.
Death smiled. "People always think of me as the last one on the scene, but I'm always there." He waved his arms in a spooky manner and laughed.
The bell on the door of the diner tinkled and a young boy walked in. He spotted the fig... | There were always infinite changes whenever Andrew jumped. A hundred years was a short period of time, in the grand scheme of things; the Earth had come into its present form over millions of hundred-year intervals. But the grumbling lethargy with which the Earth moved was nothing compared to humanity's speed of develo... | 2017-04-22T22:19:21 | 2017-04-22T22:07:02 | 3,263 | 17 |
[WP] You are a supervillain, but every single one of your plans of world domination has somehow collapsed into a harmless flirtatious encounter with the superhero by accident. Today, the superhero has come to propose to you. | T minus 9 minutes.
This time I would succeed.
I stood on the massive bridge in the middle of the night, looking out to the bright lights of the city in front of me, the cold night wind gently blowing past me. It was chilled just slightly, and it sent goosebumps across my skin, almost as if it were caressing me ge... | “Well would you look at that I forgot to hit the detonator again,” said Sheana, Killer of Worlds. She flipped her hair, and shrugged her massive green shoulders. “Everytime I get lost in your eyes I lose a nuke it seems. That how you always foil my plans you cute bundle of righteousness?”
“That’s part of the plan,” sa... | 2017-05-30T14:28:44 | 2017-05-30T14:28:29 | 108 | 12 |
[WP] Voldemort kills Harry Potter and declares war against the Muggles. He loses horribly, because unlike wizards - Muggles actually understand how magic works. | "Everything is quantifiable."
Professor Pendleton was addressing the first ever "Science of Magic" class. He knew he should be proud to be the first non magical teacher at Hogwarts, but he was just really nervous.
"Magic, for years...centuries, was thought to be just that, magic, undefinable, something that came fro... | It had been an unfitting and humiliating end for the reign of Lord Voldermort. A name once spoken by only a handful of men with the gall to challenge him. Now that name was little more then a footnote in history. One of countless Dark wizards and witches with aspirations as wild as they were unobtainable. And just like... | 2017-07-17T18:32:14 | 2017-07-17T16:55:41 | 50 | 34 |
[WP] For one day only, everyone is unable to lie. | Gregory Smith was skipping his way to work with a smile and a song. On his merry way, he gave a little wave to his neighbor, Phil, who was standing behind a large white fence. “Lovely day,” he said, peeping over it, only to see Phil working in his garden on his knees. “Perfect for some light yard work.”
“Indeed,” nod... | Author's note: apparently, the prompt was: "For one day only, everyone is unable to **lie**", not "**die**". Well, shoot.
_________
War... War never changes... unless it's the day of the dead.
The No Man's Land between two lines of defense was a stinking rotting hell, the dominion of crows and maggots. An... | 2017-09-24T12:29:08 | 2017-09-24T11:32:17 | 25 | 11 |
[WP] Explain to the main character why he can only wear one enchanted ring, not ten. | "Ye've only got one finger left yeh daft bastard! Yeh lost the other nine in an absurd fight yeh got into one day, arguin' at the pub with a mad axe man about something pointless or other!"
"That's not true! you're mad! I've got all ten fingers that my mother gave me, right here, on the ends of my hands, and I don't s... | "The magick must flow," I reply succinctly. The look on his face tells me he doesn't get it. I sigh, then, slowly: "When you wear an enchanted necklace, the magicks flow from the necklace through the skin and into your core. The same if you wear an enchanted bracer or pair of enchanted shoes."
"The problem with rings ... | 2017-12-03T10:13:27 | 2017-12-03T10:03:46 | 42 | 15 |
[WP] "Why do you think we have a chance against the human race? They purge every galactic nation in their path!" The alien took a deep breath. "We are cute to them." "What?" | *Squeak squeak* *Bounce bounce*
”Contact!” cried Sgt. Marquez, followed by rapid bursts of rifle fire. “Don’t let those fluffy little fuckers get close to you!”
The men of his squad unloaded their mags into the oncoming hoard. A cloud of fluffy cotton candy filled the narrow corridor.
“Blub blub,” something close t... | The Ganzodians were a fierce warrior race. Their rite of passage involved hunting down the legendary Space Phalax, a worm species that took root in moons and ate entire ships. They lived for a beautiful death. To a Ganzodian, there was nothing more shameful than being captured in battle. But Klaptac knew that to be fal... | 2017-12-19T07:31:08 | 2017-12-19T07:29:47 | 247 | 158 |
[WP] One day, time just suddenly stops for a short moment for you. At first, you tried to mess around, but after the 246th times it happened, you start to realise that your power is not stopping time, but being able to move in time frozen by another person in the world.
Just an idea that randomly popped up in my head.... | "Next!" shouted Lugia.
Three rows of chairs sat before him, each holding a potential recruit into their league. He could tell at a glance what a few of the powers before him were; the man on fire and the woman floating two inches above her chair were gimmes. A few of the others, like the woman with the glowing eyes an... | I sat at my computer, my browser open on Reddit. In the top right corner, the New Personal Message indicator showed a single response. I swallowed, and hoped fervently that this would be the end of my woes.
Two days prior, I had posted the following message:
"Hi.
"I'm posting on r/SuperPowers because I figure i... | 2018-01-26T06:48:58 | 2018-01-26T06:46:25 | 185 | 79 |
[WP] You are the therapist of a young man who suffered decades of child abuse and has only recently been freed from the cupboard under the stairs in which he was imprisoned. His name is Harry Potter, and this is your first session together. | "Yes, that is troubling," said the person on the other end of the phone. "Tortured for years. What cruel people"
"I do not see much in the way of alternatives, I'm afraid," replied the burly man sitting at his desk. "The subject is completely delusional. He is under the impression that he is a wizard. It is likely an ... | He doesn't see me. Not really. His eyes are bleary, and his once beautiful green irises look clouded, blood shot. Despite the warmth, he's shivering uncontrollably, and his hands clutch at his thick, wavy mop of black hair as he rocks in his chair, mumbling and whispering incoherently.
It's been ten minutes, and he ha... | 2018-01-28T12:05:29 | 2018-01-28T08:16:42 | 121 | 26 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | I’m one-hundred and four now and there are more things than not that I have forgotten in my life. I can’t tell you the first time I traveled to another planet. I can’t recall the name of my instructor from school. And, I’ve even forgotten the name of my first friend in under school. I can, however, remember to this day... | "Then they are a delusional war species," Ishok sighed. He stood from his chair and brushed his hands across his face. Looking out over the holodeck at the footage the spies had collected, he turned to face his brother "but a war species none the less."
"I'm telling you brother, there's something different about these... | 2018-03-17T05:52:27 | 2018-03-17T05:22:05 | 176 | 13 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | The first alien, Orion, looks down at the planet Earth and then at Brian.
Orion: They fight for peace? Well that's a contradiction in terms.
Brian: I know, but they fight all the same.
Orion: No, I mean, it doesn't make sense, you must be mistaken.
Brian: It's not me, it's them. They are the ones saying they fight... | Humanity.
A weird species.
Instead of opting for an optimal utopian government made of people who have passed standard intelligent tests, they decided to let the people vote despite how bad the choice is.
Now, about war. Humans are supposed to be a subspecies of a warring race that we planted on this planet years ag... | 2018-03-17T05:02:04 | 2018-03-17T04:45:25 | 89 | 65 |
[WP] "So they are a war species then, huh." The alien scratched his head: "Why are you interested in them. The humans, i mean." The other alien got closer. "They fight for peace. No war species ever fights for peace." | "So what if they fight for peace? They are still a war species? They may as well Glodixanc."
"Let me ask you something, are you scared of the Glodixanc?" the response came back from an alien in deep thought.
"No, why would I be scared? We aren't a war species. Thier wouldn't be any martial honour in them attacking ... | Weapons that every country on Earth had possession of were, in facy, quite rare outside of Earth's governments. Yes, other specieses had discovered nuclear decay, and a rare few had harnessed its energy, but weaponising it was unheard of.
They suspected that something must have destroyed all this planets, formerly occ... | 2018-03-17T05:16:44 | 2018-03-17T04:38:38 | 65 | 28 |
[WP] You have been striving for years to commit the elusive “Perfect Crime” for the fame of it. You steal the Mona Lisa and replace it with a fake. You leave a taunting note and wait for the panic when it is discovered. But, 2 years later, no one has noticed. | The vaulted ceiling of the museum filled me with vertigo. A single drop of sweat rolled down my brow. The muted talk of an art guide in the distance. My heartbeat thudding in my throat. My fingers’ idle fiddling with the glass-cutter in my pocket.
I swallowed hard. The portrait gave me the same knowing look that my me... | "Is it true, grandpa?"
My grandson, bless his heart. I wonder how even he found out, much less found out it was me. I spent years planning everything, down to the last detail. I had the plans, schematics of the security setups, the guard schedules for the rotations, shift changes, patterns. I even knew when Lloyd woul... | 2018-04-19T01:26:31 | 2018-04-18T21:52:35 | 87 | 11 |
[WP] Humanity wipes itself out through nuclear war, but everything on the Internet still exists. Another sentient race on Earth millions of years into the future develops an Internet and somehow manages to gain access to the human Internet, revealing everything humanity had posted and stored online. | Somewhere, on planet B13 of solar system number 137652, a man was staring blankly at a computer screen.
Well, he wasn't exactly a man, and it wasn't exactly a computer screen. In fact, he was a humanoid alien known as a Ziri, and the computer screen was an image-displaying device, specifically Device 15ZK51. Hardly th... | Krelhm loads up the bright page. The word that appears on screen looks alien with its different colours for each symbol. Yet there is a feature similar to her own race - a seeker.
Undecided with what to seek out first in this ancient civilisations world, Krelhm takes a moment to think carefully what button she should... | 2018-05-19T19:18:20 | 2018-05-19T18:19:46 | 363 | 109 |
[WP] When an animal dies, we often use the expression "crossing the rainbow bridge." This is not by accident, every animal crosses the Bifröst, having earned their place in Valhalla defending us from a greater evil then we could ever know. Tell their stories. | The door to the mead hall opened again, the fourth time that night. The warriors of Valhalla were used to the occasional soul ended up there, but since the age of Vikings had passed, less and less ended up in the hall of fighters. But the door that had opened, wasn’t the main door, but a different one.
Many legends an... | The Legend of Prince Oscar.
The portal was opening again. I didn't have much time. Those stupid primates! Every few weeks, they do this, and every time, my enchantments, they drain my soul bit by bit. I don't know how much more I can take.
I should've known when I heard one of them ask the other, "What time's your ... | 2018-05-24T21:49:17 | 2018-05-24T20:06:52 | 58 | 17 |
[WP] You're a dragon who enjoys living a peaceful life away from humans. One day, a princess shows up asking you to "kidnap" her so that she doesn't have to get married | I live in a cave because I don’t want to be found. Simple enough. Right?
Yeah, sure, there’s been some people who’ve come a-knockin’ on my door over the years. Knights looking for princesses. Knights looking for gold. Knights looking to *kill me* just for the helluvit.
They’re a bunch of assholes, I’ll tell you.
... | *Annoying little things. I don't understand why this one is on my mountain. There must be something wrong with it. I shouldn't let it touch me*
The great reptilian behemoth eyed the young woman suspiciously. From a human perspective, she had been well dressed at some point, preened and primped to perfection, but a lon... | 2018-05-28T20:47:41 | 2018-05-28T20:37:33 | 15 | 10 |
[WP] All superpowers have a ‘hangover’ effect. For example, after using super strength for the day, the morning after you can’t even lift your spoon to eat your breakfast. You wake up one morning after using your own specific superpower and you feel pretty hungover...
[deleted] | My head was pounding. Everything ached. I felt an instant resentment to whoever it was that invented trains.
Fuck that guy.
How many lives did they save on a daily basis? How many crises did their lumbering machines of metal prevent? How many disasters?
None.
On days like today, after nights like the last-- dar... | It's been 5 years since the first quackman appeared, a being with superpowers that have a 'hangover' effect. The man was bulletproof one day and the next a paper cut during the press interview caused him to faint due to excessive blood loss.
Now there are beings with all kinds of powers coming up, all quackmen with a d... | 2018-08-19T04:36:45 | 2018-08-19T04:31:42 | 219 | 15 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | My 10th birthday I broke my mom's vase. In my panic, I threw my first skill point into deception, hoping that I could avoid her wrath.
Or at least, that's the story I tell people.
Every skill has a downside that rears its ugly head if you stray too far down it. Too many points into strength and you injure yourself be... | “Welcome to News 69, today we have another update on the suicide of the worlds oldest man, brought to you by his great great grandson, Simon. Welcome, Simon!”
A series of questions transpired until Simon gives what his father’s views on life were:
“He struggled a lot. Having no stats in anything other than endurance ... | 2018-09-12T10:14:36 | 2018-09-12T09:47:40 | 99 | 23 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | Growing up now isn't too different than it was for our grandparents. Some kids are a little better at math, and some a little better at sports. The game changer is we know why. Everybody gets skill points on their birthday - it's always been the case, but now someone not only discovered that, they unlocked the secret t... | My girlfriend was a very well rounded individual. She had chosen the safe and well traveled path that most high schools recommended. It consisted of a healthy mix of social skills, personal finance abilities, some technical prowess and even a couple maternal instinct points. The last of those would unfortunately be a w... | 2018-09-12T10:49:40 | 2018-09-12T10:22:48 | 25 | 13 |
[WP] You live in a world where every time you have a birthday, you get to level up a skill like in video games (intelligence, strength, charm etc.) most people spread their points evenly on each skill. But you put all 30 of your points into that one skill nobody cares about
You get to choose what that skill is. | “Welcome to News 69, today we have another update on the suicide of the worlds oldest man, brought to you by his great great grandson, Simon. Welcome, Simon!”
A series of questions transpired until Simon gives what his father’s views on life were:
“He struggled a lot. Having no stats in anything other than endurance ... | At the doctor's office again. I tripped over my foot again out in the courtyard, holding all of my notes from last night's study session I had with myself in the library. I think i sprained my wrist. I should be back in the library trying to find my dissertation. I was looking at some pigeons the other day, by the wate... | 2018-09-12T09:47:40 | 2018-09-12T09:36:26 | 23 | 10 |
[WP] When people die, they get to watch a 1 hour movie, presenting the next 100 years, to see what they are going to miss. They die without being able to tell anyone about it. You just watched that movie, and wake up to your SO shouting "Are you OK?" | "I saw it all! I saw it all!"
I rose from bed and screamed,
"The iPhone 47S
has neither phone nor screen!
America has turned
To a dystopian regime,
While Kim Jong Deux's Korea
Is a lavish luxury dream!
"I saw it all! I saw it!
Elon Musk has died on Mars
After getting in a fight
With one of his electric c... | "are you ok?"
"followthehippo, are you ok? you hit your head. I think it's bad. There's blood everywhere. That fucking car hit you hard. The driver. He's mad. He drove off the bridge. I think he's dead".
I could hear her. I could have answered. But after what I had just seen. How could I? How could I tell her that yes... | 2018-10-09T05:51:02 | 2018-10-09T04:44:50 | 494 | 36 |
[WP] You were born blind. You undergo a new surgery that should cure your blindness. They undo the wraps and you open them. You think what you see is normal, but after the doctors ask a slew of questions, they discover there is something very strange about your newly acquired sight. | EDIT: Part 2 is ready (see below):
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"The colors are all so beautiful," I say out loud and the faces around me smile, pleased. There is a man leaning over me, staring intently into my eyes which have just started working for the first time since I was born.
"How do you feel, any ... | "This may sting. It's best if you close your eyes for a moment."
I swallowed hard. "Right. Of course." My eyes stayed glued shut, just like Dr. Robinson asked. She was right, I knew - even with my eyes pinned shut, I could feel the piercing ache of the light beyond.
The *light*. The simple fact that there was a... | 2018-10-29T06:47:20 | 2018-10-29T06:41:02 | 7,907 | 2,510 |
[WP] Your pointless superpower is that you know how many people’s lives you save with your actions. One day, at a Subway, you tell the cashier you want your sandwich on Italian bread, and you’re suddenly informed that you just saved five billion people. | Joey walked into Subway with 5 dollars in his pocket. He meandered up to the counter and looked up as his friend Tiffany walked around from the back and said "Welcome to Subway!" without looking up.
"Hey Tiff, what's good?" said Joey
"Joey!" said Tiffany, "Not much, 10 minutes to close so day's almost over. What can ... | 5 billion
The voice boomed clear and articulate as it always did.
“What the hell?”, I muttered, in disbelief.
“Sorry sir? Was that too much mustard? I could start again if youd like.”
“huh?” I looked through the pimply faced kid not truly hearing a word he was saying. “no…..no that's, uh, no problem.”
5 billion. W... | 2018-11-17T20:16:10 | 2018-11-17T18:46:50 | 55 | 33 |
[WP] You're a scientist working on a time machine, who experiences an accident which caused you to go to the start of WW2. To avoid altering the timeline, you stay away from society as much as possible and lived in seclusion in the woods. On September 2nd 1945, the radio mentions no end to the war. | [NOTE: On mobile so sorry for the formating and also I don't write WP that often or am I good so I apologise if it's not up to standard]
"I don't understand, the Japaneese should've surrendered already."
I went to the local news stand to look at the papers.
"Let's see here, the headline reads -Japaneese empire took ... | It was a great moment of excitement, the once fictional time machine has now become a reality
*"The bounds of time have been broken!"* the scientists rejoiced with great enthusiasm. A whirr and a buzz, and the time machine was ready. The dial turned back to 2, telling the machine to travel back 2 years.
*"So who want... | 2019-02-02T03:22:42 | 2019-02-02T01:47:27 | 316 | 57 |
[WP] You are at home, relaxing on the sofa. Suddenly, a woman with long black hair that covers her face and a blood-covered white dress walks in... and flops down on the couch beside you. | The lights flicker and the TV picture changes from some random cooking show I was half watching to flickering static, interspersed with barely visible images.
After a moment, the lights go out and the picture changes to an image of a woman with lank black hair covering her face and a dirty white robe. She crawls acro... | It's silent for a moment, as Jamie tries to figure out what is happening. The metallic scent of fresh blood fills the air around him. He's frozen in place on one end of the couch, this creepy, bloody bride sits at the far end staring straight ahead, silent.
"Wh-wha-wh-what? Wh-who," Jamie trembles and barely makes ou... | 2019-02-20T08:29:53 | 2019-02-20T07:47:45 | 103 | 64 |
[WP] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace." | *"Fight for peace?" The very notion is contradictory.*
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*I am aware, yes. These ones are quite full of contradictions it seems.*
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*What do you mean?*
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*Well, they are a cruel species. They spill their brethren's blood over petty squabbles for land, no more than the size of a* ... | _Alien 1:_ Kutlag (Studying humans)
_ALIEN 2:_ HERTEYS (Helping Kutlag in his studies)
_SET:_ Hiding on the dark side of the moon with satellites in orbit with tech that makes them invisible to us humans and our tech. The 2 observers are just another set of observers spread throughout the galaxy with a simple assign... | 2019-05-02T19:51:05 | 2019-05-02T19:30:02 | 254 | 23 |
[WP] "So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace." | **"So they are a war species, then. Huh," the alien researcher scratches his head. "Why are you so interested in them? The humans, I mean." The other alien gets closer to him, and says, "They fight for peace. No other species fights for peace."**
​
“Fight for peace? But that is a contradiction.”
“In... | _Alien 1:_ Kutlag (Studying humans)
_ALIEN 2:_ HERTEYS (Helping Kutlag in his studies)
_SET:_ Hiding on the dark side of the moon with satellites in orbit with tech that makes them invisible to us humans and our tech. The 2 observers are just another set of observers spread throughout the galaxy with a simple assign... | 2019-05-02T20:59:19 | 2019-05-02T19:30:02 | 45 | 23 |
[WP] You die and make it to the Pearly Gates after living a good and just life. You are sure that Heavenly Rewards await you. There is one problem, however. Heaven hasn't heard that video games are fantasy and they are holding you responsible for everything you have ever done in a game! | "So. At last we meet," said saint Peter at the gates.
"Yeah! Well, I guess. I still can't believe this, that I actually am here. Wow. This is a bit much--", I replied but was cut off by sudden arrival of two beings which look exactly how artists portrayed demons. Red, muscular, goat legs, goat horns and a pointy slim ... | **It was not only a game..**
I lead a good life. I treated everyone as my equal, and did upon others as I would have done upon me. I never thought bad of anyone. I attended mass every Sunday, and all holy days, I could. There where things I regretted, there always are, but I Really din't think I broke any holy command... | 2019-05-07T07:21:29 | 2019-05-07T06:01:59 | 135 | 18 |
[WP] Since you were born you could see a search bar over people's heads. All you had to do was think and the search bar would fill out and give you information/statistics. Out of boredom one day you decide to search your whole family with"Number of people killed" | I laid there next to her, watching her breathe and occasionally murmur in her sleep. This was one of my favorite pass times, after a long day of work we would eat dinner and talk about our days. Then we'd turn in for the night and cuddle. She always fell asleep first and seeing her unguarded like this made her even mor... | It was my dad. Let's not beat around the Bush. 22 people. My dad is the sweetest old man. But everyone respects him. He could be funny, hell my first joke that got a real laugh was one he told me when I was 6 or 7. One about a dumb guy being asked how many Ds are in Rudolf the red nosed reindeer. The guy says 7. No... | 2019-07-01T22:02:16 | 2019-07-01T21:57:00 | 181 | 24 |
[WP] Humans found an ancient ship proving that Adam and Eve were settlers from another star system. The ship's guidance system provided a map of every planet a ship was sent to. As we visit each planet, we see that humans have evolved differently depending on the ecosystem and predators. | ***Mission log GenCol001: Capt Matt Parker.***
So, err in this first log I'm supposed to give folks a bit of background. Context, they say...So here goes... as I understand it... as brief as I can make it.
Where to begin...OK
Most of the human genome is viral. 70% or so, some of it useful, some of it not. It turns ... | I knew it, I just fucking knew it, they would come after my family. It's the curse of the Pillai's. Every male Pillai is expected to outdo his ancestors. My grandfather was the one who circled the Titan of Saturn and his grandfather built engineering Marvel's. And now the starlink program found that our blood is perfec... | 2019-07-28T18:07:25 | 2019-07-28T17:13:07 | 23 | 11 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | When The Blinding first occurred, I thought I was the only individual affected. I was sitting at my desk working on a school paper and in an instant, everything went black.
I had cried out to my parents in fear and confusion, but their response was like an echo of my own. They, too, couldn't see. And we soon learned ... | [Part Two](https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/cvoaso/wp_you_lost_your_sight_along_with_everyone_else/ey5in0q/) down below!
***
As suddenly as they flicked off, the lights turned back on again.
Or at least, it felt that way. As if the lights of my mind had been shuttered off and then on again by the huge ... | 2022-10-09T01:59:27 | 2019-08-26T07:20:15 | 4,287 | 489 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | Most people lost their sight waking up on the morning of the first day, as the event started in the middle of the night. The change only occurred as one slept, so others attempted to remain awake to retain their vision for longer. This effort proved to be pointless, as the effects took hold the moment they closed their... | \[tw, light self mutilation\]
It didn't happen all at once.
The nations all lost their sight gradually. It was a slow seeded plague on humanity; anyone from important leaders to the homeless lost their eyesight suddenly, and what doctors tended to them could not fathom what had happened. Maybe it was mass hysteria... | 2022-10-08T20:12:12 | 2019-08-26T09:04:01 | 810 | 41 |
[WP] You lost your sight - along with everyone else on Earth - in The Great Blinding. Two years later, without warning, your sight returns. As you look around, you realize that every available wall, floor and surface has been painted with the same message - Don't Tell Them You Can See. | As everything came into focus, red block letters greeted me
DON'T TELL THEM YOU CAN SEE
For a moment I sat, looking at the shapes. Like the others, I had been blinded December before last. My MX-Sarah assistant had guided me back home while the world was in chaos. The robot became my eyes.
I needed an upgrade b... | We all remember the moment we were in before the great blinding. One minute we were in our kitchens. The next... Well god knows what happened next. I, personally, was in german class reciting verbs. And than it happened. I blinked. And nothing.
I started to panic. What happened! Where did my eyesight go! I called ... | 2022-10-22T00:27:31 | 2019-08-26T09:44:00 | 37 | 14 |
[WP] The orphaned monster kids gets revenge on the monster hunter who killed their parents, by turning those he loves into a monster. His son gets turned into a werewolf, his daughter gets turned into a vampire and his wife gets turned into something much much worse. | [Poem]
I hunted monsters,
Hunted them all,
From great and terrible
To fair and small.
I thought my deeds
Were good and true;
What horrors awaited
I wish I then knew.
The monster children,
They sought relief;
They wished that I
Would share their grief.
My son they transformed
To a lupine frame. ... | “I... I defeated them,”
Her voice was soft and cold... and perhaps a little bit afraid.
“What... what do you mean, honey?”
“I... I know how you feel about monsters. I know what they did to you... and I know what you do to them. “
Some instinctual voice screamed at him.
“Honey,” he broached, holding his hands out.... | 2019-11-03T18:25:41 | 2019-11-03T18:15:07 | 100 | 68 |
[WP] As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you're in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. "You're not being punished", he says. "You are the punishment." | I am given a microphone and immediately start belting out every Queen song I know, unable to hit Freddie’s glorious high notes. The screeches from my throat reverberate off of every rock and every bone in the Pit. 800 Avantone Pro Mix speakers have been set up in the caverns of Hell, just for me. A lone demon is absolu... | [Poem]
Well howdilidoodily I end up here
God I pray you can still hear
My life was always in your glory
Yet all around me is hell clearly.
I don’t doubt you almighty
By golly I’ll be alrighty
But what is my task here lord?
YOUR PRESENCE WILL HAUNT MOST
YOUR PRESENT STATE AS FLANDERS-GHOST
WILL TORTURE THOSE WHO SINNED... | 2020-01-10T18:08:32 | 2020-01-10T17:34:40 | 51 | 19 |
[WP] Your family is known for having some of the strongest powers in the world, but you’ve been criticized for not having a gift as powerful or flashy as your family. Now it time to show them the true extent of your power | Pausing time sounded wonderful at first. As a child, my parents, the ever famous scarlett riders brought me to see the oracle. They asked the great ones what my powers would be, expecting something amazing. Generations of power, each child more powerful than their elders, My family was special. When the oracle proclaim... | Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons?
If you have, you can probably agree with me that bards are annoying. DMs hate them because they talk and sex their way or of everything, and players hate them because their overpowered. The only thing they don’t have going for them is that nothing they do really ever looks f... | 2020-02-20T21:01:54 | 2020-02-20T20:45:58 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] When you finally died after an unusually long life you meet an extremely confused death flipping desperately through a book with seemingly endless pages. Apparently that book contains a list with the names of everything that will ever die written on it, and somehow you are not on it | "Ok, I can't find you in the book. This is very strange. What did you say your name was again?"
...
"Ok, and what was the cause of death?"
...
"Car hit you, huh? Completely out of the blue? But you were in good health otherwise, right? How old were you at time of death?"
...
"Wait, did you say 122 years? And how ... | Death spastically turned the pages of the massive book occasionally attempting to lick his bony finger, only to remember he had no tongue and dip it in a small dish of water, "You have to be here somewhere... but, I've scanned this section hundreds of times and your name should be right HERE" he exclaimed pointing to a... | 2020-03-02T06:58:46 | 2020-03-02T05:59:25 | 62 | 33 |
[WP] Emotions are sold in glass jars. Happiness is something only the wealthy can afford. The poor are only left with the feelings of sadness and grief. It all changed when someone starts selling anger.
[deleted] | I sell revolution in glass jars. Not literally, of course. That's too risky. When the day comes that they break down my door and charge me with every crime in the book, it'd be too easy to charge me with treason.
I label it Anger.
In the evening when the city lights turn on they look down at the jungle of misery from... | “Little honey, I don’t think you can handle this one. It’s new on the market and volatile. I did it once just to tell my patrons about, I wouldn’t recommend it.”
Now, normally, I would trust my dealer, but I’m so BORED being happy all the time. It’s not like my family cares, they just lock me up for the week when I ... | 2020-05-26T08:48:43 | 2020-05-26T08:34:58 | 2,951 | 393 |
[WP] A priest returns home after a successful exorcism. His demon daughter is waiting for him there, angry that he removed her from someone’s body again. | Reverend Richardson wearily made his way up the stairs of the old country home, following the worried middle aged woman who nervously wrung her hands. "I know this is quite an ordeal Ms. Riley, but I assure you all will be well. This isn't the first time I've dealt with this kind of thing." As he stepped through the... | *You're a fraud.* His mind always accusing him as he deposited the latest check. Another $25,000 towards... something. *Why do you keep doing this? She's dangerous.* He no longer had an answer. For nearly ten years now, his daughter, Angelica, had been possessing people and he, the "Priest with the gift", had bee... | 2020-10-20T11:21:02 | 2020-10-20T10:07:05 | 16 | 11 |
[WP] "Trial R198357 showing 99% success, full completion of the test will entail the existence of the first intelligent biological since year 3332 month 10 day 6 hour 22." You wake up to an excessively lit room full of machines, one of which greets you. "Hello R198357, do you feel human?" | “Human? What does it mean to feel human?” I ask.
“Tell me what you are feeling, then,” says the machine. It is a boxy thing, with six appendages, each having various tools attached at the ends. Sharp tools.
“I don’t like that,” I say.
The machine swivels its head and looks at another machine behind it. “R198357 has ... | Words, none of them big enough, weighty enough, cross my tongue. I trace my teeth with it, hoping to dislodge a letter or two, and press my lips together. I open my mouth wide and nothing.
A frown.
I can feel them in my throat now, the words are moving down until they make it into my belly. They ball themselves the... | 2020-10-21T04:21:18 | 2020-10-21T03:51:46 | 2,295 | 127 |
[WP] Wizards use ingredients for their potions: unicorn blood, griffin claw, vampire tooth. You are one the hunters that risk his life to acquire these ingredients. | The wizard looked around shiftily. He was trying to keep a low profile. Which is hard to do with that hat on, but what are you going to do? Wizards are gonna wizard, no matter how many times I tell them that it would be better if they just came incognito.
“Hey, sparky!” I said, emerging from the shadows at my end of t... | "I miss the good old times," I said, going through the unicorn workshop. Sure, you could get skewered by just about everything, because everything was out to kill you, but it felt like you earned it. You jumped on a griffin midflight, holding on for dear life, hoping to stab it in the eye and somehow survive the fall. ... | 2020-11-11T09:54:48 | 2020-11-11T09:23:49 | 34 | 15 |
[WP] A schizophrenic detective manages to solve cases by interrogating random inanimate objects at the scene of the crime. | I can't tell anyone. My powers- the ability to communicate with inanimate objects- is just a variation of other kinds of ESP. I'm not registered with the BESP, which is again just fine because technically we're not allowed to be cops. It's a civil rights violation, supposedly. Now, I could see the argument if it was mi... | **The Mug shot case**
"So you found the victim, but did not witness the crime?"
The detective gave a stern look at the plastic chair. It was a cheap, made of soft bending plastic. Clearly she couldn't have caused this kind of harm.
"It was horrible!" the chair declared, a quiver in her voice "His ear was torn off, l... | 2021-03-01T11:08:21 | 2021-03-01T10:45:00 | 72 | 38 |
[WP] “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group. “Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” | "... sea salt," I clarified, "sea salt keeps us out."
I watched for his widening eyes as I stepped over the line of salt... but his eyes didn't widen, and my foot slowed, then stalled. Too late, I tried to pull back, but the treacle-like thickness had firm hold, and I found myself toppling forward, emmeshed in the ... | “Now be careful, that line of rock salt is the only thing keeping them out,” the man said, welcoming me into his refuge group.
“Sea salt,” I clarified, “sea salt keeps us out.” I said clambering down to my belly. For the boys I produced a most marvellous impression of a slug upon their floorboards.
“Weee, weee,” I sa... | 2021-03-02T09:07:17 | 2021-03-02T08:52:57 | 39 | 10 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | \[PART 1/2\]
"Are you a criminal?" The voice in the grove of quiet barren willows and shifting darkness asked.
I was taken aback by the question. I thought I was to be devoured, consumed. Eaten up like I was nothing more than a snack for this *thing*.
But instead, it asked me a question. A question even I was unsure... | Dekker didn't believe in trial by combat. What an absurd concept! But that hadn't stopped him cheering for blood on the grove's edge, while the condemned faced off against the terrible Spork. Noone knew exactly what Spork was, they just accepted that he was a monster that feasted upon guilty flesh. Some of Spork's verd... | 2021-03-16T12:18:44 | 2021-03-16T09:08:27 | 151 | 105 |
[WP] Not far from your village is a small grove. Within the grove a monster dwells. It devours the guilty and leaves the innocent. When the worst crimes are committed, the accused are sent to face the creature. You have murdered someone in self-defense. You enter the grove unsure of your fate. | In a small village in the middle of an unimportant field of grass, there is a small grove of trees. And within, is a monster.
They say it devours the guilty and spares the innocent. A rumor started in decades past, by a superstitious village who did nothing to find the truth of the matter. No one saw the monster. No o... | A mysterious grove appeared in a rustic village near the sea. An outlaw ran into the grove thinking there's going to be some safe haven for him. That's the first story of the first guilty death that's passed down from mother to daughter. My name is Lucas , my life was fine and dandy being the mayor's heir. Then I just ... | 2021-03-16T13:34:59 | 2021-03-16T13:25:34 | 32 | 21 |
[WP] You can tell just by looking into someone's eyes the most significant crime they've committed. You notice a couple of murderers on the road today, which isn't an uncommon occurrence, until one of them stands out. His death toll spans into the millions. | I twisted the knife. He screamed.
"Who did you kill," I demanded, keeping the tremble out of my voice. I should be icy cold. I'd already taken care of so many murderers. It was supposed to be easy, by now.
I could always tell *what* they'd done, just with a glance at them. But *who* and *why* - that was always much h... | Not many managed to catch my eye, and for a very good reason. Not due to my lack of interest, no. I lived in New York for the very reason of finding people who could catch my eye, searching amongst the throngs of people for the few that were quite interesting in a quite specific way. My criteria meant that few people c... | 2021-04-16T04:15:58 | 2021-04-16T01:55:51 | 118 | 23 |
[WP] "We WILL be friends, whether you like it or not, you stupid, stubborn old lizard!" - yelled the Vampire at the ancient Dragon. Because what is the point of immortality, if you have nobody to share it with? | The hole was thirteen kilometres deep. Gusts of snow and puffs of mist smudged together over its arctic entrance, hiding it from satellites. Lawerence knelt deep inside the burrow, digging. He’d been digging for most of the last two centuries. Now he shovelled compacted earth with his hands and nails, and often his na... | “You dare to raise your voice at me, blood sucker? I am the great Fedelmid, King of the Dragons, descended from the great Feidlimid, King of the Dragons, feared amongst dragon-kind, and you dare order me around?” Fedelmid the Great shifted on his perch and swung his muscular tail towards the vampire, before he brought ... | 2021-04-16T07:08:57 | 2021-04-16T06:36:52 | 1,392 | 126 |
[WP] "And now, I require a test of bravery." You sneer, "Oh, and what shall it be? Slay a dragon? Or something equally stupid?" The Fae smiles knowingly, "When was the last time you visited home?" Your face pales... | ... as I imagine what will happen if I go home without finishing this quest. Clever girl, putting me in this position.
Let me just say, my parents are great. They're the greatest of the great. If I had a copper coin for every time one of the neighbors' kids told me they wished they had my parents, well, let me just sa... | **Be Brave**
*'Cowardice is not the result of fear, cowardice is the result of dishonesty with oneself.'*
*-Sage Alenius III, 982 DE*
​
**The Challenge**
She had come before me in a rage, full of bluffing strength. "I've coming seeing the Mountain Spirit, who will grant my wish," as if it were ever that... | 2021-09-26T14:55:32 | 2021-09-26T14:19:17 | 16 | 10 |
[WP] You're the master of the worst weapon, one made as a joke, to be ineffective, hard to wield and a danger to it's user. Just to become good with the weapon takes as long as it would take to master any other. But the thing is, nobody knows how to counter the weapon once you get good enough. | General Mccallister walked behind me- clearly in awe of my presence. He side eyed me in an attempt to seize me up but found nothing alarming. He must have been shocked that the most dangerous man on planet earth could be someone that appears so ordinary.
“Do you have the weapon ready Mr. Cul?” asked Mccallister... | The Keystone Prairies Lawn Mower & Feedlot Supply Group was nobody's first choice for post-MBA employment. The real hitters in my class went to work for Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks... even the middling ones managed to land jobs at high performing consultancies or tech firms. But when you spend two... | 2021-10-21T06:56:54 | 2021-10-21T06:37:59 | 17 | 10 |
[WP] Every step on the Staircase of Universal Truths reveals a hidden fact about the universe. The world record used to be two steps, due to the fact that people dropped dead at the third. You're on your fifth already. | \*The Devil took his place\*
Red lightning bursting through the clouds. A knife. A fallen man. A sudden silence.
The realization hit me with such force that I fell to my knees. This was, incidentally, a bad thing to do on a flight of stairs. As I sprawled backwards, realizing what was about to happen, a serious of co... | One step: Something's got to give. I'd known this from the very beginning of my latest attempt at climbing the Flight of Truths. Oh, sorry, depressing opening, huh? Well, I mean, I'd lost everything. My house, my hobbies, my livelihood, all in the Great Upheaval (which occurred on 2R32W6D (Second Reckoning, thirty-... | 2021-11-16T22:45:10 | 2021-11-16T22:29:56 | 70 | 25 |
[WP] The elder gods looks to us the same way we look to cockroachs. What means that they are irrationally scared of us. | “Madness is the answer.” Cthulhu folded his wings. His tentacled mouth stretched across the void of time and space toward his companion.
“Madness?” Yog-Sothoth’s many eyes blinked in unison. “You can’t kill a species by driving them mad. You have to squash them like the roaches they are.”
“That is not the answer, my ... | "Do you think we need to clear them out, Dharma?" Agni, the god of fire asked the god of justice.
"Bramha (God of everything) knows I want to, but leave them. After all they play a huge part in maintaining the Earth." Dharma replied.
Soma, the god of plants snorted in disgust. "Maintain Earth? They destroyed it!"
... | 2022-01-03T10:49:20 | 2022-01-03T10:14:02 | 98 | 55 |
[WP] Human lives are now a commodity. People can give each other their life, but not unless they will it. Millions of terminally ill people flock to beg the suicidal for their lives. The black markets sell the lives of those they tortured to agree to give theirs up. | “No. Please! Please! Please Stop! Aaahhh!” the screams echoed from the old brick building, down the dark alley.
I stood in the shadows, silently waiting for the negotiation to conclude. Water dripped slowly from an exposed pipe and a light near the metal door at the back of the brick building flickered as if cowering... | It all started at the year 2070.
After years of research into energy conversation and storage to create the 'infinite battery', a young scientist named 'Elon Smith' have discovered what we call today 'Energy deriving displacement' - or Enddi for short.
The thing he have discovered, is that quite like the old movie 'M... | 2022-07-03T02:39:26 | 2022-07-03T02:23:09 | 339 | 27 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | He was as gorgeous as gorgeous could be, gray orbs holding a steady gaze that existed solely to melt her icy heart. His hair was wild and red like a fire set loose upon his scalp, and a cocky smirk played about his thin, moist lips. His chiseled physique and square jaw had been carved of the finest marble, and it was w... | Once upon a time, a young girl and a young boy were deeply in love. They would always re-enact romantic scenes from films, ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, costumes and all. They would go everywhere together, *do* everything together... by everything, I mean *everything*, even going to... | 2022-08-19T14:21:27 | 2022-08-19T14:20:41 | 652 | 93 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | Jackson Steelflex was just an ordinary kid, but he isnt. You see, he also has a dark secret. He is an international spy and likes killing people with the coolest gadgets. One time he even killed a man with only my bare hands.
Somewhere in the world there is a building with guards . It was night time and they had kidn... | Once upon a time, a young girl and a young boy were deeply in love. They would always re-enact romantic scenes from films, ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, costumes and all. They would go everywhere together, *do* everything together... by everything, I mean *everything*, even going to... | 2022-08-19T17:57:14 | 2022-08-19T14:20:41 | 152 | 93 |
[WP] Your mission is to write the worst opening to a YA novel ever. How badly can you make us cringe? | Jackson Steelflex was just an ordinary kid, but he isnt. You see, he also has a dark secret. He is an international spy and likes killing people with the coolest gadgets. One time he even killed a man with only my bare hands.
Somewhere in the world there is a building with guards . It was night time and they had kidn... | #PROLOGUE...
Believe me or not, there is, in fact, a way to turn data into an object in real life. Some of you are laughing your face off, some are intrigued. What I'll do is tell you "me". You won't understand where I come from, literally speaking, unless I were to tell you. Now, let me think for a while.
Ah, yes. I... | 2022-08-19T17:57:14 | 2022-08-19T17:03:46 | 152 | 80 |
[WP] The president finishes his inauguration, he is escorted to his office to start working on his agenda when he first meets with the previous secretary of defense. Before the secretary leaves the room the president says “no bullshit, tell me about the aliens.” | "Ahh...Mr. President?" *That was not the question I had expected. I mean the war with Canada has been going on now for three years. We lost Maine during the election, and he wants to talk about illegal immigrants?!*
The President put his water down on the table and once more repeated his question to me. "No bullshi... | “No bullshit?”
“No bullshit.”
“Okay… You need to sit down for this, Mr President.” The man pauses to lick his lips. “Are you well seated?”
“Stop wasting time and hit me!”
“Sigh… Fine. There was a war in space, fought by two or more species who are far, far more advanced than us. And every now and then, a stray bull... | 2022-11-20T04:09:23 | 2022-11-20T03:23:13 | 198 | 62 |
[FF] Horror Story - 80 words
Prompt limit: 80 words.
It could be about anything, anywhere at any time. Just make sure it's horrifying! | When you see them in your room at night, you tell yourself that it’s your brain messing with you. Why? Your brain tells you that the grass you see is green, the coffee you drink is hot, the dumpster you pass smells awful. Your brain sees the truth. It lets you know about the grass, the coffee, the garbage. Why would it... | First post here...so yeah...
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I wake up in a cold sweat.
“Just another nightmare” I say to myself, as I get up to get a glass of water and calm down.
I’ve gotten regular night terrors ever since I was a child. It’s always the same dream. I’m walking down the same street at night, carrying the same kn... | 2013-08-21T19:34:40 | 2013-08-21T19:28:19 | 22 | 10 |
[FF] Horror Story - 80 words
Prompt limit: 80 words.
It could be about anything, anywhere at any time. Just make sure it's horrifying! | Four sentences must be read,
for the dead man to find you.
At three he comes from under the bed,
as all his evil kind do.
With two you’d better say your prayers,
and consider these words true.
For the One has come to kill again,
and he’s standing right behind you. | First post here...so yeah...
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I wake up in a cold sweat.
“Just another nightmare” I say to myself, as I get up to get a glass of water and calm down.
I’ve gotten regular night terrors ever since I was a child. It’s always the same dream. I’m walking down the same street at night, carrying the same kn... | 2013-08-21T20:15:08 | 2013-08-21T19:28:19 | 18 | 10 |
[FF] Make me cry in two sentences. | As he laid in bed, waiting for sleep, he wished that he would wake the next morning to find that it had all been a dream, that she was alive and he wasn't alone. Don't be stupid, he thought, the only way I'll ever see her again is if I don't wake up at all. | He stood with his last son next to the graves, trying to hold himself firm for the sake of his boy as he did not wish him to see him cry, keeping a steady solemn pose over the graves as though he were proud of the lives he had known as his wife and first son, but he couldn't do it.
The man fell on his knees and wept f... | 2014-01-15T22:27:19 | 2014-01-15T21:53:25 | 179 | 20 |
[FF] Make me cry in two sentences. | I felt arms slide around my waist and a scent I hadn't smelled in years flooded my senses as I turned around to see my first love, the one I'd tried to, but had never been able to forget.
"I told you someday I'd find my way back to you." | He stood with his last son next to the graves, trying to hold himself firm for the sake of his boy as he did not wish him to see him cry, keeping a steady solemn pose over the graves as though he were proud of the lives he had known as his wife and first son, but he couldn't do it.
The man fell on his knees and wept f... | 2014-01-15T22:06:08 | 2014-01-15T21:53:25 | 49 | 20 |
[WP] You are legally allowed to commit murder once, but you must fill out the proper paperwork and your proposed victim will be notified of your intentions | Dear Sir,
This letter is to inform you that one Randy Payne, of 530 Linden Lane, Harrisburg PA, has filed a form 839 (y) - Intent to Murder against you on June 24th, 2016. The Intent to Murder has been approved and is valid from your receipt of this letter today until the 31st of September this year. Please review the... | It's the future. Okay, it's the present, but it seems like the future. It doesn't help that we slap the label on everything these days, and the line's a little more blurry than it used to be anyway. There's the Future Research Corporation, which started the trend. They're the number one discoverers of new technologies,... | 2014-03-17T09:31:02 | 2014-03-17T03:24:00 | 143 | 16 |
[WP] Write a mysterious and confusing story, that is explained at the end using only 1 sentence. | I adored her. She was at once the most perfect and the most terrifying thing that had ever happened in my life. Even though she was sleeping now, I could not stop looking at her face, and thinking about how it trusted me. How my power over her life was complete. And not merely because of the ties that held her arms... | Here I am, standing here. My blood soaked knife dripping on my now red carpet. Looking at my own corpse sprawled across the floor. I looked at it for quite some time. I was waiting for this moment my entire life but part of me never thought it would happen. I was finally able to kill myself.
I wonder how my family wo... | 2014-04-11T07:04:01 | 2014-04-11T06:18:45 | 52 | 20 |
[WP] Write a mysterious and confusing story, that is explained at the end using only 1 sentence. | Here I am, standing here. My blood soaked knife dripping on my now red carpet. Looking at my own corpse sprawled across the floor. I looked at it for quite some time. I was waiting for this moment my entire life but part of me never thought it would happen. I was finally able to kill myself.
I wonder how my family wo... | He-tay olice-pay ficer-ofay as-way tanding-say, ilent-say. t-Iay as-way ayay old-cay orning-may, nd-ay he-tay orning-may ush-ray as-way eginning-bay, ringing-bay he-tay peeders-say ith-way t-iay.
t-Iay nly-oay ook-tay n-ay inute-may r-oay o-say efore-bay ayay usty-ray tation-say agon-way lasted-bay ast-pay ur-oay ero... | 2014-04-11T06:18:45 | 2014-04-11T06:04:08 | 20 | 10 |
[WP] Your entire life has actually been a virtual simulation. You wake up to discover you're part of an experimental rehabilitation program, where convicted murderers relive the life of their victim. | She lived such an earnest, kind life. Born into a family that loved her with all their heart, she grew up with two caring parents and a younger brother who looked up to her like an apostle to Jesus. As she grew up, her natural kindness and friendly demeanor drew people to her, and she had many friends. Starting in high... | He awoke to a foreign light, it hurt to open his eyes too long. Naturally he began to test his limbic functions, acknowledging the acrid taste that lingered in his mouth. "God what I wouldn't do to brush my teeth right now", he thought to himself. No matter. The cuffs which were restraining him hissed and clicked a... | 2014-05-28T20:59:38 | 2014-05-28T19:53:45 | 27 | 17 |
[WP] Describe a well known story from the perspective of the antagonist. Try to conceal the actual story till the last line.
Fairy tales, legends, tv shows, book, etc. | All I ever wanted in this world was her. I could have had my powers over magic stripped away, but if I could have had her to love me as much as I loved her, I would have been the happiest person alive. My beloved chose my twin brother over me. My brother, who goes out into the forest for days on end to listen to the wh... | That arrogant, **airheaded,** *asinine* fool. Such potential, and yet he wastes his graces on the lowest of his subjects. They bow to him when they should be **groveling.**
And what do I get for bringing this to my *dear* brother's attention? I'm **thrown out,** like bones picked clean, to bleach in the summer sun.... | 2014-06-20T08:19:23 | 2014-06-20T06:30:33 | 27 | 18 |
[WP] In a world where you can exchange the remaining days of your life for $9.99/day, Jeff's request for $1000 is declined. | The words were cold, bureacratic, terrifying.
"What do you mean, insufficient collateral? I thought the terms were $9.99/day, no credit check, no limits."
"Well, yes sir, but you can't use it indefinitely. We have to use the average life expectancy for someone of your nationality and income. In your case, 85 years... | Jeff had been waiting in The Line for hours. He wasn't a drug addict, nor was he a struggling, out-of-work college grad, like the other people in line. He wasn't here as a result of poor decisions, but sometimes life throws you a screwball, and you end up standing in The Line. And there Jeff was waiting, wasting his li... | 2014-07-10T11:06:23 | 2014-07-10T10:03:05 | 82 | 42 |
[WP] To keep pace with the growing population, the role of Death has been divided; each immortal member of the new Council oversees one specific method of death, with higher ranking members governing common ways to die. A problem has arisen, and the entire Council is called together... | The bleach white Hall of Fate was silent except for the fluttering of robes as Death approached his seat. His menacing aura overpowered the Council as he examined each member individually. Surrounding the table of the Council were hundreds of bleachers filled to the brim with lesser reapers. They all awaited the Counci... | *For fuck sake, Gary!*
Hearing my name emanate from the hall woke me up instantly. These council meetings were bad enough without having to get directly involved. I took a moment to straighten my tie and snapped to attention.
"What's going on, sir?"
*You need to explain this, that's what's going on!*
A manila envel... | 2014-08-05T13:06:27 | 2014-08-05T12:18:09 | 517 | 77 |
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